Posted August 28, 200816 yr Hi everyone, nice to meet you! I am going to get a budgie soon! Well... hopefully. We are renting, and have asked our real estate. The owners happily agreed to let us get a budgie, but we are still waiting to get written approval from body corporate. I suspect it will be okay because our body corporate bylaws state that we cannot have any pets without written permission and that written permission must be obtained before bringing any animal onto the premises. To me, that sounds like we're likely to be allowed a small pet since our owners are happy - otherwise surely they'd have a blanket ban on pets? Anyway... will have to wait and see! In the meantime, I am getting impatient haha... so I thought I'd join and say hello! I have been having a look on here for a while and you guys seem to have great advice and experience, and share the love of budgies ------ A bit about my background with budgies..... I got my first pet budgie, Ricky, from a pet shop when I was 11 (after years of nagging for one haha) and he was a beautiful pet who was extremely tame and talked, but he flew away So we got another one from a friend who we knew bred budgies in their backyard - Sunny Boy. He was very tame too and he lived for about 8-9 years. About one or two years after we first got Sunny Boy, I got a small aviary as a combined Christmas/birthday present.... and we got about 5 more budgies from my mum's cousin who bred them. That was the start of a wonderful journey of breeding budgies, which brought so much joy as well as sadness at various times. I really enjoyed breeding budgies and watching them grow up all the way from the beginning! I think I have had over 40 budgies in total, and my parents still have some although they have stopped breeding. They still have a couple of the original ones we bred, which are now over 11 years old! Now I'm starting my journey all over again, planning to get a new one as a pet, with my husband who has never had pets and is also very excited. I consider myself fairly experienced with budgies, but I know I still have a tonne to learn, and it's been a while since I had them as pets. I think it will also be a pretty different experience having one as an adult than when I had them as a child/teenager. That's all from me for now.. I will have to go back and play the waiting game lol... but I'll let you know when we get one, and in the meantime I might dig up a few photos of some of the ones I used to have Edited August 28, 200816 yr by krosp
August 28, 200816 yr Welcome to our forum We have a few members in your area....perhaps they can help you find your new budgie. Fingers crossed for the approval, although it sounds like it WILL happen. Have a cruise around our forum and check out the FAQ section. Even though you have had budgies before, there's always new things to read about and new things to learn. and AGAIN....welcome
August 28, 200816 yr Hello and welcome!! It is great to have you here. I hope they dont keep you waiting too long. I look forward to pictures of your previous budgies
August 28, 200816 yr Hi and Welcome to the forum Look forward to meeting your new guy, it must be so exciting after not having one for soo long! Great to have you aboard
August 28, 200816 yr Author Thanks everyone, great to meet you! Let me know if this isn't the right place to put photos... but here are some of my old budgies: Here's sunny boy, who was a very tame pet and a great talker This is the most unusual one I ever managed to breed. The mother was a violet normal, and the father was a sky blue spangle.. all the other babies we got from this pair were sky/cobalt/violet normals and spangles. So this one was really interesting, and unfortunately it did not live to adulthood so I never got to find out if it was a boy or girl and see what it was going to end up looking like. Young siblings of the one I just posted above... These two were eggs that were left to go cold, and I begged my parents to try fostering them. I can't believe it worked - we gave them to my mum's cousin who had budgies nesting at that time, and they raised them up until they were about this age and then tried to kick them out of the nest so we took them. They were such a lovely sweet natured pair. These are all from a different pair than the others... just goes to show that even when they think they're big enough to leave the nest they can't help but still burrow and squish together! Edited August 28, 200816 yr by krosp
August 28, 200816 yr Lovely pictures! That one who passed away looks fallow like from the pink aorund it's eye and how the eyeball itself looks red. Lucky
August 28, 200816 yr This one is a violet cinnamon spangle - VERY PRETTY and would have been a female. The bub on the right has REALLY REALLY REALLY nice spangle markings!!!!!
August 28, 200816 yr Author Lovely pictures!That one who passed away looks fallow like from the pink aorund it's eye and how the eyeball itself looks red. Lucky Thanks - yes it did have red eyes. Liv - how can you tell from this picture that it's a female? Or is it a sex-linked thing?
August 28, 200816 yr Hi & welcome to the forum, I hope you enjoy it here. I like the pictures of your previous birds & agree with Libby, that the unusual one is called a Fallow.
August 28, 200816 yr Lovely pictures!That one who passed away looks fallow like from the pink aorund it's eye and how the eyeball itself looks red. Lucky Thanks - yes it did have red eyes. Liv - how can you tell from this picture that it's a female? Or is it a sex-linked thing? red eyes is not cinnamon then - well spotted Libby and Norm cinnamon is sex linked but as it's a fallow i dont know what it's gender would have been - the others may know
August 28, 200816 yr It's definatly a fallow then Could have been either sex. Liv was basing the sex on the cinnamon mutation, but now we've concluded it is infact a fallow it could have been either sex. Any photo's of it front on?
August 28, 200816 yr Author It's definatly a fallow then Could have been either sex. Liv was basing the sex on the cinnamon mutation, but now we've concluded it is infact a fallow it could have been either sex. Any photo's of it front on? This is the only clear front on photo I can find. It seems to be a fairly even colour. I have no idea!
August 28, 200816 yr Author Aww... we were calling it a female at the time although it was too early to be certain, but then years later I found out that recessive males' ceres never go as dark, so I wasn't sure how to tell what it was! That's really interesting about the cinnamons- come to think of it, the only ones we ever bred that had cinnamon markings (two yellow ones) were female. I had this pair once that was a yellow hen with black eyes and the markings on her wings were grey and spangle-like (her stomach had a dirty sort of tinge, but not enough to be olive or grey, just a mustardy yellow)... and her partner was a sky blue spangle. For some reason, every time they bred, when the baby had a black eye she raised it, and when it had a red eye, she completely rejected it and wouldn't feed it from the moment it hatched. I never found out why she rejected the red eyed ones, but I really wanted to know what they would have looked like. The ones that she did raise, with black eyes, turned out to be completely yellow all over, without any of her smudginess. In case you're wondering, this mother had Sunny Boy (above) and a green spangle as her parents... and the father had a sky normal and green spangle as parents. That doesn't help me at all in guessing what those red eyed babies would have been, but it's an interesting mystery anyway! Sigh... all this budgie talk.. .. HURRY UP BODY CORPORATE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
August 28, 200816 yr Agree, definatly a male Fallow Some hens do strange thinks... No-one ever really knows what's going on in their head I guess... If it was the same parents as the fallow bub they were more than likely fallows also.
August 28, 200816 yr Author Nope, different pair... although, the male was a grandson of that other pair that had the fallow..
August 28, 200816 yr Ahh who knows then, but being red eyed (presuming they weren't plum) they could've only been a few things... Ino's fallow or Lacewings If plum eyed then Recessives, cinnamons or Df spangles
August 28, 200816 yr Heya Krosp, Sorry to hear it taking a while to get the approval. But i am sure that you have been Window shopping I love your pics from your previous flock that Fallow sure is a handsome Boy ... I too like the bubs in the seed dish picture We have 2 photo comps running at the moment ---->BABY BUDGIE PHOTO COMP and Budgie of the Month Comp ... I look forward to reading more and can't wait to see your new budgie when you get the THUMBS UP !!!
August 29, 200816 yr Author Thank you! Still waiting I was really hoping it would come through today so we would have the weekend to get the budgie. We got approval from the owner the very same day the property manager received our email - it was very fast! But it's been 4 days now for body corporate... which doesn't sound like long haha but it sure feels like it Yep I have indeed been window shopping. I'll let you all know if we get approval.... sigh.... well, there's still another hour or so until the working day ends so fingers crossed haha
